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Breaking point   /brˈeɪkɪŋ pɔɪnt/   Listen
Breaking point

noun
1.
(psychology) stress at which a person breaks down or a situation becomes crucial.
2.
The degree of tension or stress at which something breaks.





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"Breaking point" Quotes from Famous Books



... the battle began with a discharge of missiles from a distance. The darts and stones flew thick, and all the while the Caledonians were edging away to right and left in the hope of surrounding the Romans. Agricola strained his thin line almost to breaking point, but his opponents had the advantage of numbers, and still pressed him. The danger of a gaping centre grew imminent. The crisis of the conflict came. Three Batavian and two Tungrian cohorts charged sword in hand. The issue was not long in doubt. The small ...
— Chronicles of Strathearn • Various
... intellectual or social—are lost to sight, and the illiterate daughter of the dyer can rebuke and exhort as by her natural right him whom with unwavering faith she believed to be the God-appointed father of all Christian people. Catherine's patience, one feels, is near the breaking point: and heart- break for her is in truth not many ...
— Letters of Catherine Benincasa • Catherine Benincasa
... husband really believe that I mean what I say; and you are my Declaration of Independence!" And she laughed, but a trifle wildly, and looking at her suddenly, I realized that she was keyed almost to the breaking point. ...
— Sylvia's Marriage • Upton Sinclair
... some of Bob Slack's clothes. Better far to be mistaken for a burglar than to be dragged forth lamentably yet fancifully attired as Himself at the Age of Three. The one thing might be explained—and in time would be; but the other? He felt that he was near the breaking point; that he could no ...
— The Life of the Party • Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
... thank God! in this supreme moment of trial the art of which I am a master had not failed me. If my hand had shaken ever so little, if my nerves, strained to breaking point, had played me false in the least degree, if the rag from Hans's hat had not sufficed to keep away the damp from the cap and powder! Well, this history would never have been written and there would have been some more bones in the graveyard of the ...
— Allan and the Holy Flower • H. Rider Haggard


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